Table of contents

Original articles

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Serum parathyroid hormone and risk of adverse outcomes in patients with stable coronary heart disease (17 May, 2011)

  Norma Christine Grandi, Lutz Philipp Breitling, Harry Hahmann, Bernd Wüsten, Winfried März, Dietrich Rothenbacher, Hermann Brenner
• Original article: Low homoarginine concentration is a novel risk factor for heart disease (10 May, 2011)

  Stefan Pilz, Andreas Meinitzer, Andreas Tomaschitz, Christiane Drechsler, Eberhard Ritz, Vera Krane, Christoph Wanner, Bernhard O Boehm, Winfried März

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction: should cardiac screening be offered to first-degree relatives? (22 February, 2011) Free

  Wilhelmina S Kerstjens-Frederikse, Gideon J Du Marchie Sarvaas, Jolien S Ruiter, Peter C Van Den Akker, Arno M Temmerman, Joost P Van Melle, Robert M W Hofstra, Rolf M F Berger

Heart failure

• Original article: Impact of left ventricular longitudinal diastolic functional reserve on clinical outcome in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (7 June, 2011)

  Sung-Ai Kim, Chi-Young Shim, Jin-Mi Kim, Hyun-Jin Lee, Dong-Hoon Choi, Eui-Young Choi, Yangsoo Jang, Namsik Chung, Jong-Won Ha

Platelet function

• Original article: Variability in on-treatment platelet reactivity explained by CYP2C19*2 genotype is modest in clopidogrel pretreated patients undergoing coronary stenting (31 May, 2011)

  Heleen J Bouman, Ankie M Harmsze, Jochem W van Werkum, Nicoline J Breet, Th O Bergmeijer, Hugo ten Cate, Christian M Hackeng, Vera H M Deneer, Jurriën M ten Berg

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Fractal branching quantifies vascular changes and predicts survival in pulmonary hypertension: a proof of principle study (8 February, 2011)

  Shahin Moledina, Annemijn de Bruyn, Silvia Schievano, Catherine M Owens, Carol Young, Sheila G Haworth, Andrew M Taylor, Ingram Schulze-Neick, Vivek Muthurangu
• Original article: Apical right ventricular dysfunction in patients with pulmonary hypertension demonstrated with magnetic resonance (14 June, 2011)

  Leticia Fernandez-Friera, Ana Garcia-Alvarez, Gabriela Guzman, Fatemeh Bagheriannejad-Esfahani, Waqas Malick, Ajith Nair, Valentin Fuster, Mario J Garcia, Javier Sanz

Hypertension

• Original article: Right ventricular remodelling in systemic hypertension: a cardiac MRI study (31 May, 2011)

  Giancarlo Todiere, Danilo Neglia, Sergio Ghione, Enza Fommei, Paola Capozza, Giacinta Guarini, Giulia Dell'Omo, Giovanni Donato Aquaro, Mario Marzilli, Massimo Lombardi, Paolo Camici, Roberto Pedrinelli